Acts 13:18

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For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

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  • Acts 7:36 : 36 This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
  • Deut 9:7 : 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
  • Deut 9:21-24 : 21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made—the calf—and burned it in the fire. I crushed it, grinding it into fine dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flows down from the mountain. 22 You continued to provoke the LORD to anger at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah. 23 And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land I have given you,' you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey his voice. 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day I first knew you.
  • Neh 9:16-21 : 16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments. 17 They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them. 18 Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies, 19 You, in Your great mercy, did not abandon them in the wilderness. During the day, the pillar of cloud did not depart to guide them on their way, nor did the pillar of fire by night to give them light for the path they should take. 20 You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold manna from their mouths, and You provided water for their thirst. 21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
  • Ps 78:17-42 : 17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland. 18 They tested God in their hearts by demanding the food they craved. 19 They spoke against God, saying, 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?' 20 True, He struck the rock, and water gushed out, and streams overflowed. But can He also give us bread or provide meat for His people? 21 Therefore, when the Lord heard this, He became furious; a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger rose against Israel. 22 For they did not believe in God or trust in His salvation. 23 Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven. 24 He rained down manna for them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food to their fill. 26 He made the east wind blow in the heavens and guided the south wind by His power. 27 He rained meat on them like dust, birds like the sand of the sea. 28 He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings. 29 They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved. 30 But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving. 31 Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel. 32 Despite all this, they kept on sinning and did not believe in His wondrous works. 33 So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror. 34 When He killed them, they sought Him; they repented and earnestly sought God. 35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their Redeemer. 36 But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues. 37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant. 38 Yet He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Time and again, He restrained His anger and did not stir up His full wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. 40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland! 41 Again and again they tested God and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from their enemy,
  • Ps 95:8-9 : 8 do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My deeds. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.' 11 So I swore in My anger, 'They shall not enter My rest.'
  • Ps 106:13-29 : 13 But they quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel. 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland. 15 So He gave them what they asked for but sent leanness into their souls. 16 They envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD. 17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the company of Abiram. 18 Fire blazed among their company; flames consumed the wicked. 19 They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image. 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt, 22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds at the Red Sea. 23 So He said He would destroy them had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him to turn His wrath away from destroying them. 24 But they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. 25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore, He raised His hand against them to make them fall in the wilderness, 27 to make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. 28 They joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. 29 They provoked the LORD to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
  • Ezek 20:10-17 : 10 So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness. 11 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, by which a person who obeys them will live. 12 Also, I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD who makes them holy. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them. 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 15 Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands— 16 because they rejected my ordinances, did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, for their hearts followed after their idols. 17 Yet my eye spared them from destruction, and I did not destroy them completely in the wilderness.
  • Amos 5:25-26 : 25 Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 You have carried Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your idols, the stars of your gods that you made for yourselves.
  • Acts 7:39-43 : 39 But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. 40 They said to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will lead us, for we do not know what has happened to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt.' 41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?' 43 'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
  • 1 Cor 10:1-9 : 1 Brothers, I do not want you to be unaware that all our ancestors were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food. 4 They all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 But God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, 'The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.' 8 We must not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell. 9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes. 10 Do not grumble, as some of them did, and they were destroyed by the destroyer.
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.'
  • Heb 3:16-19 : 16 For who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter because of their unbelief.
  • Exod 16:2 : 2 The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
  • Exod 16:35 : 35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
  • Num 14:22 : 22 none of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times,
  • Num 14:33-34 : 33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 For forty days you explored the land; now, for each day, you will bear your guilt for a year—forty years—and you will know my opposition.
  • Deut 1:31 : 31 And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way you went, until you came to this place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:21
    79%

    21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

  • Heb 3:17
    78%

    17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Acts 7:36
    77%

    36 This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Num 32:13
    77%

    13 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that had done evil in His sight was gone.

  • Heb 3:9
    77%

    9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works.

  • Josh 5:6
    77%

    6 The Israelites journeyed in the wilderness for forty years until all the warriors who had come out of Egypt died, because they did not obey the LORD. The LORD swore that He would not show them the land He had promised to their ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ps 78:40
    77%

    40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!

  • Num 14:33-34
    2 verses
    76%

    33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, bearing the consequences of your unfaithfulness, until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.

    34 For forty days you explored the land; now, for each day, you will bear your guilt for a year—forty years—and you will know my opposition.

  • Acts 13:17
    76%

    17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, and He made the people prosper during their stay in Egypt. With an uplifted arm, He led them out of it.

  • Exod 12:40
    75%

    40 Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

  • Ps 95:10
    75%

    10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.'

  • Exod 13:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the country of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, 'If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.'

    18 So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

  • Acts 13:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 And after He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land to them as an inheritance.

    20 All this took about 450 years. Afterward, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

  • Deut 8:4
    75%

    4 Your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell during these forty years.

  • Deut 29:5
    75%

    5 You did not eat bread or drink wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 16:35
    75%

    35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

  • Deut 1:31
    74%

    31 And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way you went, until you came to this place.

  • Deut 2:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 The time we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

    15 Indeed, the LORD's hand was against them, eliminating them from within the camp until they were all destroyed.

  • Amos 2:10
    73%

    10 'It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites.'

  • Amos 5:25
    73%

    25 Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  • Deut 8:2
    73%

    2 Remember the entire journey the Lord your God has led you on these forty years in the wilderness, to humble and test you in order to know what is in your heart—whether or not you would keep His commandments.

  • Acts 7:42
    72%

    42 But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

  • Judg 13:1
    72%

    1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • Num 20:15
    72%

    15 Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Deut 8:16
    72%

    16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you so that He might do good for you in the end.

  • Ps 78:52
    72%

    52 But He led His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

  • Exod 13:20
    72%

    20 After leaving Succoth, they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.

  • Neh 9:30
    72%

    30 For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Deut 11:5
    72%

    5 And what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place.

  • Josh 24:7
    72%

    7 Your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians. He brought the sea over them and covered them. Your eyes witnessed what I did to Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

  • Neh 9:15
    72%

    15 You provided bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water out of a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and take possession of the land You had sworn to give them.

  • Num 13:25
    71%

    25 At the end of forty days, they returned from exploring the land.

  • Ps 106:14
    71%

    14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland.

  • Ps 106:43
    71%

    43 Many times He delivered them, but they were rebellious in their plans and sank into their iniquity.

  • Neh 9:18
    71%

    18 Even when they made a molten calf for themselves and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt,' and they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • Ps 78:55
    71%

    55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance with a measuring line; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

  • Acts 7:6
    71%

    6 God spoke to Abraham in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

  • Acts 7:23
    71%

    23 When he was forty years old, it entered his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

  • Deut 1:40
    71%

    40 But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.

  • Acts 14:16
    71%

    16 In past generations, he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

  • Acts 7:39
    71%

    39 But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

  • Deut 29:16
    70%

    16 You saw their detestable things and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold that were among them.

  • Exod 19:1
    70%

    1 In the third month after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.

  • Judg 10:8
    70%

    8 They crushed and oppressed the Israelites that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the Israelites who were on the east side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.